Chapter 287 The Greatest Painter of the 20th Century(2/3)
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If he had good intentions, he would not hold a high-profile auction to auction off rat and rabbit heads after the Olympics, despite the opposition of the Chinese people and the opposition of the government.
Sakamoto tentatively said, "I heard that the people who received them over there were too enthusiastic and drank too much, so they didn't catch up..."
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"You can't steal it, right? You have such a prestigious position now, it would be too embarrassing to just steal it. You can't really let Sony learn some big movie production processes and let them spend money to buy it to honor you."
Paul and other white people at the Christie's auction really took advantage of the trend of Hong Kong Island Fashion Week to make money. You said it's already July 20, and the fashion week has been over for more than a month... No, Zhao Donghuai took Hong Kong Island Fashion Week
, linked with the big movie (The Queen of 5,000 Years of Time).
All related to Hong Kong Island.
Azhen, "..."
And if you collect it, as A-Zhen said, it can be regarded as a gift for your return? It’s also a good suggestion. You’ll come back in seven years.
Originally, Zhao Donghuai had no intention of actually teaching.
Then a total of five ghost guys, led by Paul and Ben, entered the office. After entering, everyone looked at the person first, but no one could see their appearance clearly. The five ghost guys' attention was suddenly focused on the hanging person.
Van Gogh's sunflower work is on the wall.
Cheng Long’s future movie (Zodiac) is nothing more than copying the operations of the real-life Pinault family.
Azhen also understands her man.
The painting labeled F457 was bought by President Goto at Christie's in 1987 for HK$311 million.
From bronzes to various porcelains, to calligraphy and paintings, etc., we have everything.
As soon as he finished the final process and put it on the table, Zhou Huimin couldn't wait to grab it. He also took out one from the bank and made various comparisons and observations.
Only in this way can Christie's reputation and reputation be preserved, otherwise it will definitely collapse!
The total value of Shang Dan's Fang Lei body plus the zodiac animal heads, Zhou Chen's calligraphy and paintings, etc. is definitely greater than the unit price of Van Gogh's sunflower.
“We couldn’t even serve it during the meeting??”
So at this time, it is also a time period when the image and impression of Hong Kong Island by the global public is further deepened and expanded. What impression do the global public have of Hong Kong Island? Fashionable, high-end, high-end, and there are many beauties everywhere, which can make people
Look at the eyes.
In 1924, Fang Lei Lei was sold to Rockefeller of North America for US$800,000.
"Of course, if Christie's wants to maintain its reputation as an auction house, it will probably have to offer a large number of precious cultural relics in exchange for this sunflower work in your hands, Mr. Zhao."
As for Van Gogh's oil paintings, the year before 1987, at an auction run by Christie's in Yanlun, a painting of Van Gogh's Sunflowers was sold for 24.75 million pounds, equivalent to 39.92 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to 311 million Hong Kong dollars!
This is the beginning of Christie's Group becoming one of the world's top auction houses and a global auction giant.
Paul, who is in his 30s, is grabbing a glass of red wine, shaking it while looking at the antique cultural relics sealed in display cabinets, which are basically from the Huaxia series.
But not long after the Olympics, when China was in a state of excitement and revelry, Christie's announced with a high profile that it would auction off the rat and rabbit heads that had been stolen from the twelve animal heads in the Old Summer Palace.
"There is only one sunflower by Van Gogh, but it cannot be exchanged for too many cultural relics preserved in various museums in Europe, North America, and island countries. At most, it can be exchanged for a small batch."
They all followed one after another, knowing what Zhao Donghuai was doing, and witnessed with their own eyes that he made a US knife with a face value of 100, and a pound with a face value of 50.
What is insurance?? Being the second largest insurance company in the island nation is not something that Sakamoto, the president of a Sony subsidiary, can match.
There is an authentic F457 here in Zhao Donghuai’s place? There is also an authentic one in President Goto’s place, the Japanese guy? Are you kidding me?
That’s $800,000 in 1924!
He also just learned today that Christie's auction house plans to auction a large number of Chinese cultural relics in a week. I heard that there are many very precious ones?
"Hong Kong Island Fashion Week has just passed, and the world's attention on this place has not completely withdrawn. We took advantage of this fire to make this auction as prosperous as possible."
After Paul was shocked and confused, he took out the big brother and started dialing, calling President Goto of the island country. Although Zhao Donghuai said that it was sent by the people below, but in case the people below were trying to flatter him, he would get it from Goto.
Did you buy Sunflower F457?
Everyone who knows it knows that people named Zhao make money. It is common for a big movie to earn billions of Hong Kong dollars in box office, video tapes and peripherals.
Ben was shocked, quickly took out his gloves and mask, put them on, and continued to approach the sunflower.
Several major director teams did not let anyone from Sony come to the meeting table during meetings to arrange location scouting and finalize shooting plans??
Zhao Donghuai laughed, "Of course one is not enough. Let's go study and do some work..."
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Azhen is still a little eager to give it a try.
Zhao Donghuai looked at President Sakamoto and said with emotion, "I want Christie's Shang Fang Lei, Zhou Chen's Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River, etc., I also want Wang Xizhi's Three Postscripts of Mourning and Rebellion!"
Wang Zuxian came over with a banknote detector and a banknote detector pen, "Real or fake? You still do this thing? Isn't it too outrageous?"
Zhao Donghuai was happy, "I don't understand art either, but if this painting is real, I should be able to make a lot of money. Maybe it can be exchanged for a bunch of Chinese cultural relics that Christie's is going to auction."
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"Isn't it just a few sunflowers?"
The four appraisers from Christie's, accompanied and cared for by members of the Zhao family, had escorted Sunflower F457 to the 7th floor.
Zhao Donghuai said in surprise, "Okay, I didn't expect you two to have this idea. It's great to be able to think of this."
While running, Zhao Donghuai already had a general idea. Did the ghost guy invite him to participate in the auction? He must be more than one of the rich Chinese people who received the invitation. This was an honest robbery.
Sakamoto smiled bitterly, "Sheng Zhao, Mr. Goto is the president of the second largest insurance group in our island country..."
Zhao Donghuai said in surprise, "Such a thing could happen? What's going on?"
The figure immediately said weakly, "Yes, that's what they said over there. They said it was suspected to be an authentic work, and it should have been authenticated several times."
"Well, it's Van Gogh's oil painting."
But the account is not a simple matter of making up numbers and collecting money, but...you cheated the super-rich super-rich of the island country for two years, and let that person collect and exhibit suspected fakes for two years??
What about credibility blow, reputation blow?
After experiencing one of the peak auctions in 1987, the price of sunflowers has skyrocketed. Do you still want to buy the real thing from Zhao Donghuai at the original price? How much money do you think the richest man in China like Zhao Donghuai lacks?
It was Christie's who was kneeling and begging, hoping that Zhao Sheng would be noble and give them the opportunity to exchange for a wave of authentic works to make up for the business reputation of Christie's auction house, which was about to collapse.
Nowadays, the best-selling movies in the world and the fashion week recordings and broadcasts are perfectly matched with the audio-visual feast that bombards people around the world.
Zhao Donghuai nodded, "It was just a coincidence. If Christie's hadn't sent me an invitation letter, things wouldn't have developed to this point."
"Sheng Zhao is indeed the richest man in Hong Kong Island. He is so majestic. Mr. Van Gogh's masterpiece is definitely a perfect work of art worth collecting."
With four or five steps left from the sunflower painting, Ben turned to look at Zhao Donghuai, "Zhao Sheng, did you buy this Sunflower F457 from President Goto?"
Immediately behind Paul, someone laughed and cheered.
Christie's is a habitual offender of this kind of robbery.
After several investigations and various confirmations, there were many rumors that the painting bought by the Goto devils was a fake! Who was Emil? It was the same era as Van Gogh. When Van Gogh was alive, he first started collecting Van Gogh.
Artist, painter, collector of high-quality works.
What’s even more outrageous is that this is Van Gogh (Fifteen Sunflowers in a Vase) F457!
After all, they were the ones who presided over the appraisal of Sunflower F457 when they auctioned it two years ago, and also invited people from the Van Gogh Museum to do the appraisal...
It has only been two years, how could everyone forget?
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"I'm going for a run now. When I come back, you have to give me advice, otherwise I'll be beaten with a stick."
Zhao Donghuai waved his hand, "You can do whatever you want."
Ben immediately looked at Paul, "Since it was Zhao from Hong Kong who said this, there is a high probability that the Van Gogh oil painting in his hand is an authentic work. The richest Chinese man would not make such a joke and cannot afford to embarrass such a person...
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When Sakamoto got out of the way, Azhen came over and said, "Boss, are you planning to stock up on gifts for your return?"
ATV big office.
Paul was followed by several ghost guys, all of whom looked like professionals and successful people, with bright expressions on their faces.
Amin walked over and opened the door.
Zhao Donghuai felt that if he used various human-level painting techniques and fake old-fashioned techniques he had learned from the system, he should be able to paint a Van Gogh work that was as fake as the real one.
Even if his subordinates spend hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to please him, it is not a strange thing.
"Hong Kong Island is becoming more and more unstable, but in Hong Kong and Paris, there are not so many wealthy Chinese..."
But what if the Zhenjiao... let Sony buy all kinds of precious cultural relics that were stolen from China and give them to Director Zhao as a filial piety?
You should know that the fifteen sunflowers in the vase and other series of works are basically collected in the National Gallery of London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in North America and other institutions.
Then a rat head was auctioned for 14 million euros, and a rabbit head was also auctioned for 14 million euros, totaling 280 million yuan.
Later, the collector who took the photos of the two zodiac heads refused to pay, and publicly declared that as a Chinese, he could not accept the repurchase method to purchase cultural relics stolen by bandits, and he would not pay the money.
On the way to the big bath, Zhao Donghuai said, "Amin, call Christie's and ask them to come over and find a person in charge, and find some appraisers. I have an oil painting in my hand that is very suspicious of being authentic. I'm waiting.
To be continued...